City of Vero Beach Electric UtilitiesPower Restoration ProgressVero Beach, FL, October 8, 2016 7:00 PM: Power has been restored to 99% of our customers. Currently, we have approximately 200 customers out of power and crews continue to work on scattered andisolated outages until all service is restored. Some areas on the electric system sustained more damages than others and require equipment replacement and extensive tree trimming.

​PRESS RELEASE - COVB Electric Utilities UPDATE:Power Restoration ProgressVero Beach, FL, October 9, 2016 2:00 PM: Power has been restored to 99% of our customers. We expect complete restoration by end of Sunday October 9. The remaining outages require pole replacement, equipment replacement, and extensive tree trimming. There are reports of downed wires that are being investigated to determine if they are electric, ATT, Comcast or other entity.The link below will direct our customers to an outage map that will show the proximity of reported outageshttp://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html…If your address is not on the map, or neighborhood marked, Please contact the Electric Outage Center at (772) 978-5000 to report outages.Thank you for your patience and understanding. The safety of our customers and workers is our top priority.

Power Restoration Progress Vero Beach, FL, October 8, 2016 6:00 PM: Power has been restored to 87% of our customers. Because of the high number of outages and the significant damage to the electric system, we expect complete restoration by end of Sunday October 9. We have power restored to all schools except for Beachland Elementary School, which we anticipate to complete by tonight.

At this time, we have 21 out of town tree trimmers and 86 out of town line workers providing assistance to help restore power as quickly and safely as possible. If your power is on, we encourage you to keep your front porch/flood light on, which will help our assessment teams further focus their attention on homes and facilities where power still needs to be restored.

Thank you for your patience and understanding. The safety of our customers and workers is our top priority.

Hurricane Watch as of 11:00am 10/4/2016(hurricane winds within 48 hours)

With our service area now under a Hurricane Watch for Hurricane Matthew in the next three days, everyone should review the Emergency Preparedness Guide that has been provided by the IRC Emergency Operations Center. See below for both the English and Spanish versions of the files!

English - Disaster Preparedness

Español - Guía Oficial de Preparación de Emergencias

Week 1: Getting started!

You have heard it a million times already: Update, Scan, Secure your computer....it is a lot to take in, and can be very intimidating if you are not familiar with computers. Over the next month, we hope that we can help you with some easy to follow suggestions that will put you in a much better #CyberAware position than you started with!!

Stay Up to Date - Basically put, if you are not running the latest software on your Computers/Phones then you are putting yourself at risk. Most updates are FREE and should automatically be installed on your devices, Windows being the exception....it is about $100. Make sure they are set to automatically update!

Phones & Tablets - More and more the mobile device is starting to replace your computer, you have to treat it just like a computer also! Be mindful of where you connect, who has access, and what you download and view on it!

Passwords - This is where most people stumble. Follow these 3-steps to protect yourself

Try to use unique passwords at different sites, at the very LEAST make sure the one for your email is unique!

Instead of a word, try using a phrase that makes sense to you. Like "OreoCookiesAreTheBest2016". Check out this funny, and true, comic describing this: https://xkcd.com/936/ (just don't use the password from the joke!)

Two Factor Authentication - If your password ever does get compromised, this can save you. Unlike a password, it is not something that you have to remember, just have it in your possession. At minimum this should be active on your email. https://www.lockdownyourlogin.com/